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"You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album.
...But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the game will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame."

If by dismissed you mean deflected, it will be thrown like a real sword... then made a crack on the ground.

If by that you means accidentally released, it'll hit like a superheavy crowbar.

From the appearance and how Chifuyu wield it, it weights like a barbel holding bar.

Spoiler for Final Ace 03 Part 2:

Ichika walked along the corridor, and by then, he noticed, roughly a fifth of the base were in the state of repair, the damage was light, but after spotting that bloodstain near the holed wall, Ichika shut himself up.

Things really don’t go so well, but at least, he survived. He will get his payback no matter what.

But first thing first, the problem is this to put with hyperactive, less than stable twin sister. At least, until he moved SOMEWHERE.

She whistled and chuckled, elbowed him teasingly as they walk “What, y’a didn’t know? She joined Scarface in 1997, and both of them are involved in 1998 Conflict”

Hearing that, he froze on the spot with jaw stretched slightly. The comical situation last for roughly five second, and he put a palm on his face in response “I didn’t see it coming”

She winked at him as she dragged his sleeve childishly “Hey, even nepotism can be reasonable”

Simulator rooms were unusually empty; that it’s not really a big base to begin with might say something regarding ISAF’s military condition.

There are eight simulator units in total, and six of them are standardized for Air Force personnel (three Osean and three Yuktobanian model), the other two is mostly to introduce how Navy roll, apparently based on the cockpit of a Hornet and navy MiG respectively.

“Ran, learn to improvise, you moves are too predictable”

“I’m truly sorry”

Ran Gotanda slump her head on the simulator screen, feeling even less happy when it was shown that her scores aren’t half bad, especially as far as her age and experience concerned. She wasn’t even finished basic entry when the war began.

But in the brutal battlefield, simply by being decent is not enough. What’s more, she was placed in an elite squadron, that’s quite taxing by itself.

“Don’t ‘sorry’ me; you’re here for a good reason. If it was anyone else, they will not survive using a tiger like you are”

Bossy, stubborn, bossy, tall, menacing, bossy, did she already think that word three times? Well, maybe, but it was appropriate.

In her crispy suit, the Pilot Officer stood aside the simulator unit, looked down at the younger teammate with mixed emotion.

“Your harsh reassurance enlightens me truly” Ran replied with a mocking tone, her superior just chided but seems to realize that ranting about her mediocrity will not give anything satisfactory.

“I just say that we don’t have enough time”

Ran knew that, behind her unsympathetic words, there’s a genuine concern and care. The only thing annoy her to no end is that this woman doesn’t knew when to back down, or rather, too prideful to apologize.

But it should be expected, by the start of war, Ran haven’t even get into basic theory yet. It was less than three months ago she began combat maneuver and training, and yesterday is her first battlefield deployment.

But once again, ISAF need each and every capable pilot in their hierarchy, even those that’s clearly under ranked or over ranked.

The fact that the legendary Wing Commander Chifuyu Orimura joined the fray once again should give some clue.

Meanwhile, on the other simulator, the squad leader popped out with truly concerned look, almost childlike even. The fact that her physical appearance doesn’t match her biological age made it even worse.

“Ara-ara, Shinonono-kun, be lenient a little to her” she said as her big, moist eyes widened even further. As one can say, like a dog pleading.

Pilot Officer Houki Shinonono is not amused “Are you being serious, kanchou?” Houki purposefully use the local terms for emphasis.

But no matter what, Flight Lieutenant Maya Yamada earn her rank through years of service and whatnot, hence she dismissed it lightly without losing all her charisma.

“To make up with our lack of manpower, ISAF had tried to maximize the efficiency of training doctrine to maximum level. Trying to speed it up further will result in critical failure, that was the least thing we want to worry about”

Houki went into silence, eyes closed, hidden behind her shortened bang. Maya was right, either way, so she will not fight a losing debate. She is not THAT stupid.

Ran continued to sortie once again, this time, she should be able to avoid being panicky like usual. The static equilibrium within the room was broken shortly by a distinct voice of a male.

Ichika was surprised his twin sister is able to held such a serious, firm expression, but then again, military will do that to anyone. He went a long as proper and saluted.

“Thank you very much, Orimura-kun, ah, but if he’s also an Orimura, this would be awkward then, if somehow three of us confined in a tight situation-“

“Kanchou” Houki coughed before her quirky captain can continue her unnecessary (and sometimes unethical) ramblings. Ichika had met a lot of women in ISAF military, and this one is not the strangest either way, so he just smiled in response.

There should be a cricket somewhere; Ichika practically BEGGED it, anything, just to defuse the awkward silence. Scratch that, this is certainly one of the strangest one.

"Where we just now again? Oh right, Base Commander Fairs seems to have special interest for you, Ensign. What did you say if I asked for some recordable demonstration, then?”

Finally, he was relieved. Madoka almost laughed her stomach off, while rudely pointing at him. To say he was irked is an understatement; he was really dead tired with the expectation crap when his first combat sortie happened just yesterday.

“Pardon me to say this, Ma’am. I feel so hyped and that burdened me a lot. But no matter what, it is a reasonable request and within my abilities to fulfill, so I am obliged to do it”

“We will see dat, bro” a light tap on the shoulder came from his female counterpart, who giggled teasingly before jumped into a simulator unit. Sometimes he felt that he wanted to question why ISAF want a pilot with loose attitude and speech impediment.

“I figure you’re not familiar with ISAF Air force cockpit layout, if was convenient that we have two navy unit here for the purpose of comparison, F-18 and MiG-29K respectively”

Ichika held his chin accordingly as he recalled his memories, he already flew both aircrafts in combat maneuver and training. Each of these aircraft has its own merit and flaws, both are great choice either way, after generalization of improvement over aircraft engineering post Belkan War, the status of Yuktobanian aircraft’s infamous ‘not user friendly’ hardware had all but diminished.

Fulcrum is closer to Viper than a Hornet is, so he will choose the MiG instead.

“You”

“Yes, Ma’am?”

Facing him is a woman roughly his age (assuming her age doesn’t fool him like the flight leader is), she was tall and proud, much like his older sister in fact. Her reddish brown hair hardly longer than his twin sister’s own black hair, but it was tied into short ponytail… which somehow defied gravity and split into two.

Her dark blue eyes stared into his intently, watching his reaction unveil. He didn’t really do anything for few second, until he opened his mouth “What can I do for you, Ma’am”

“… nothing, be sure to fulfill that boast-worthy expectation of yours and don’t slow us down”

“I think I already made points about my abilities being overrated” he said, but she seems to ignore it.

As soon as Ichika sat on the mock cockpit, Yamada’s voice echoed on his helmet’s speaker

“Please engage the COFFIN System.”

“Wha? Oh right” Ichika whip out the nearby manual book (conveniently there on the seat even), and proceed to push the buttons he never found at a real Fulcrum. Within ten seconds, the simulator unit is fully enclosed, apparently by display screen “Wut”

“[To enhance the effectiveness of training, we’re working with North Osea’s Grunder Industries to develop this system. This cockpit, as you see, is capable of projecting high-resolution image on the screen, simulating real life flying experience visually]”

Then it switched to Madoka’s voice instead, her playful tone had returned to its glory, which he somewhat glad “[In short, darling, this is really an expensive arcade console… except it’s not for gaming. Some proposals has been submitted regarding of the possibility using COFFIN design in real aircraft, but it’s still too fragile to be viable]”

“What I can say, it’s awesome” Ichika confirmed.

Everyone wasn’t wearing anti-g external implements, but they still wear their flight suit for convenience. Ichika just got his out of laundry, distinguish him from everyone else. Either way, since he’s not a foot soldier, the point is moot.

He looked around, minus the instrument for COFFIN system, everything else is similar to the revised Fulcrum cockpit, and so, he began to simulate the check and recheck process as proper.

"Flaps, rudder, engine, landing gear, weaponry, all check"

The entire machine vibrates a little as the engine ignited, unusual that Ichika never experience it in the old simulator unit, but it’s better that way, feels more real even if a little.

“All clear, Mobius One, Takeoff”

And the machine shook harder as the catapult drove his virtual plane to the sky (though there’s no apparent g-force whatsoever), the environment uncannily resembles the sea-faring landscape of Newfield Island in general, the place where he bet his lives on yesterday.

"You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album.
...But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the game will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame."

I just realized, I made a lot of mistakes about everyone's career progression. Thus, this is the fixed result.

Chifuyu's rank is higher than it should be, Chifuyu is only 33, and served for less than 6 years but already achieved the rank of Wing commander (OF-4), which normally took roughly 10 years of service after first commission (She is commissioned at the age of 27).

However, as Natasha said they're recruited within a special circumstances and commissioned directly to Squadron leader (OF-3, roughly equivalent to Army Major) for convenience, skipping roughly four years of career progression. Natasha is, in fact, the one that actually progressing VERY fast (From OF-3 to OF-5 will take 12 years on average, she did it with 6) and become a Frontline Base Commander (Normally an OF-6, a Colonel, if you may).

It does help that a lot of ISAF high ranked officer is killed during the war, with no less than 2 FREAKING MILLION total casualties, talk about kicked upstair to fill the void (wartime promotion they say). Almost everyone in the main cast roster (Age 24-25) is OF-2, or quickly promoted to that rank from OF-1, but ended as OF-3.

If it gets unsummoned mid-swing, the momentum loss will be instantaneous and the user might lose balance for a brief moment. It would be even worse when they are moving mid-air since it might also screw up their flight pattern if they are unable to regain balance quick enough.

Spoiler for Rise Of The Replicas:

Residents in the seaside town of Ohara lead their daily lives as they would every day until a few abruptly gasps and points to the formation of five Jabber-type drone units approaching Cape Hachiman.

“What the… Are those…?”

“ISes?”

“Seems like it…”

Unlike the standard Jabber and its Strike variant, these ones sport specialized appearances to replicate unique features of those found on some of the prominent Personal Infinite Stratos from the Infinite Stratos Academy.

Glint Jabber, colored white with thrusters and stabilizers built in the shape of wings like those of Ichika’s Byakushiki and is armed with its own version of the Yukihara sword. Draco Jabber, mounted with twin giant orb-shaped cannons like those of Lingyin’s Shenlong, including the double-bladed scimitar lance and the Shenlong’s trademark purple-violet colors and yellow highlights. Armed with a single long sniper rifle and four wing bits mounted as wings behind its shoulder, the Focus Jabber replicates Cecilia’s Blue Tears all too well especially with the prominent sapphire-blue color scheme.

Despite the undoubtedly wide range of armaments that Charlotte’s Raphael Revive Custom has, the desert-orange Stark Jabber manages to mount a similarly huge payload of weapons, sans the twin shotguns, at the expense of its appearance which shows its jarring technological limits; wrist-mounted machine guns with affixed bayonets, a combination of the Raphael’s Garm sub-machine guns and Bread Slicer knifes, twin assault rifles mounted individually on secondary arms behind the Stark Jabber’s shoulders. Above all, it also mounts a heavy shield on its left arm including the revolving pilebunker that’s partially concealed under the shield.

The last unit in the formation is the jet-black Nacht Jabber. Like the Stark Jabber, its appearance doesn’t mirror its original which is Laura’s Schwarzer Regen and it lacks one of its original’s weaponry, the Active Inertial Canceller. Nevertheless, the Nacht Jabber is equipped with a coilgun over its right shoulder which, unlike the Schwarzer Regen, is belt-fed with customized projectile cartridges connected with disintegrating links. It also sports standard beam blade emitters and rocket anchors on its forelimbs.

The replica Jabbers blatantly ignores the awestruck residents as they cruise across the sky, their sights fixated solely upon one target; the Infinite Stratos Academy.

Castle Of Glass seems like an ideal background music for the Minerva-vs-Replicas battle.

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"You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album.
...But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the game will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame."

@ Eras
Though it's really not as much as Stratos claim, remember I.S. body are huge and made of super strong metal, Izuru's inconsistency on later volumes aside (for the sake of humor of course) V1 outright said how I.S. are god forsakenly heavy, not lead heavy, but still need several people to carry.

And do remember, this is where PIC worked, that is, INERTIA control. (And it still do jack shit against air pressure, what the hell).

I'm not even sure where to go though, Chapter 03 Ace Combat X-over almost finished but....

EDIT: I blame the insufficient number of canon Russian character in both verse though , I can't write a nation as sympathetic if the only named character is Prime Minister, Female Army Major, and a friggin Resistance Leader who happened to be a college student...

What I mean is, per Ichika's logic, he will first treat them like nuisance that's very desperate to stay with the Orimuras for no clear reason.

And he will use his logic IF his friends pestered him about beautiful people camping in his household, he will either said "Friends of my sister" who automatically become his "sister figure by proxy", and thus the easy answer would be "his sisters".